Arlene Stredler Brown, CCC-SLP, CED
Consultant
Ms. Stredler Brown is best known for her expertise and contributions to early identification, intervention, and treatment of hearing loss in children. Her leadership in newborn screening and intervention options for infants and toddlers is particularly exceptional. Her work prioritizes measurable effective education and health care options that are respectful of the family and emphasize what is best for the child on an individual case-by-case assessment. She is active in state and federal initiatives to promote evidence-based early intervention practices.
She holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech/Language Pathology and endorsement as a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing issued by the Conference on Educators of the Deaf. She is currently the director of The Keystone Project. In this capacity, she provides consultation and technical assistance to programs in the United States and internationally that are working with infants and toddlers with hearing loss.
Academic Positions
She is adjunct faculty in the Department of Education and Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia and is adjunct faculty in the Department of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado. She has been an Instructor in the Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder and a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, Colorado.
Lecturer and Author
Ms. Stredler Brown is the author of The FAMILY Assessment, an evaluation used with infants and toddlers with hearing loss to plan intervention and support research in the field. She has made many presentations and published frequently on topics in her field including treatment protocols for children with auditory neuropathy/dys-synchrony, children with minimal hearing loss, and the importance of delivering evidence-based practice. Her current focus is on the delivery of early intervention services through telepractice.
Education and Educational Experience
In addition to her education credentials (BA, Elementary Education, The American University, Washington, DC; graduate coursework in Education of the Hearing-Impaired, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC and University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and MA, Speech/Language Pathology, University of Denver), Ms. Stredler Brown was a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing in an urban school district for nine years. She is currently funded as a fellow with the National Leadership Consortium for Sensory Disabilities (NLCSD) while working toward her doctoral degree.
Administrator
Until her retirement in 2006 she was the Director of Early Intervention and Education Programs at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB) directing the Colorado Home Intervention Program (CHIP) and providing technical assistance to early intervention and preschool programs serving deaf and hard of hearing children statewide.
She also has experience with the Colorado Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Board, the Colorado Vision Screening Project Advisory Committee, the National Early Intervention Coalition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Families for Hands & Voices National, Collaborative Early Intervention National Training e-Resource (CENTe-R), Colorado Cochlear Implant Consortium, and the Colorado Early Intervention Task Force. As the project director for the TeleCITE (Tele-intervention for Cochlear Implant Therapy Exchange), Ms. Stredler Brown studied the delivery of services to deaf children through telepractice in a three-state region.